Voter turnout was very low in Tuesday's primary election in Carbon County.

Only 6,595 (19.95 percent) of the 33,055 eligible voters took the opportunity to cast their votes. Of course, there were no single contests on the local ballot, since most of the candidates seeking state and federal offices were running in districts that include multiple counties, or parts of them. Otherwise, in the only individual office up for grabs in the county, there were no contests yesterday.Highlighting Tuesday's results were county Democrats' favor of York County businessman Tom Wolf for the party's nomination for governor. Similar to the trend in his statewide victory, Carbon County voters gave Wolf 62.9 percent of their votes as he easily outpolled the other three Democrats on the ballot.Wolf will face Republican Gov. Tom Corbett in November. Corbett was unopposed yesterday and received 73 percent of the county Republicans' votes, tallying 1,666 of the 2,282 votes cast.Meanwhile, the Republicans had one choice on their ballot, that being the contest for the party's nomination for the 17th Congressional District seat and the right to meet Democratic U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright in November. County voters favored Bethlehem Township racing team owner Matt Connolly by 40 votes over Schuylkill County Coroner David J. Moylan, 584-544, while Wind Gap pilot Matthew Dietz was a distant third in the race with 292 votes.Moylan won the contest overall and will face Cartwright in November. The congressman collected 2,616 of the 3,350 votes in that race in Carbon, 78.1 percent.The 17th District includes the townships of East Penn, Franklin, Lower Towamensing, Mahoning and Towamensing and the boroughs of Bowmanstown, Jim Thorpe, Lansford, Lehighton, Nesquehoning, Palmerton, Parryville, Summit Hill and Weissport in Carbon County; all of Schuylkill County; and parts of Northampton, Luzerne, Lackawanna and Monroe counties, including the townships of Chestnuthill, Polk and Ross.Governor's raceWolf was better than a 3-1 winner over his closest challenger in the Democratic race for the gubernatorial nomination in the county. He collected 2,662 votes, followed by state Treasurer Rob McCord with 877; former DEP secretary Katie McGinty, 397; and U.S. Congresswoman Allyson Schwartz, 282.In the lieutenant governor's race, county Democrats favored state Sen. Mike Stack, who was also the statewide winner and who will be Wolf's running mate. Stack received 1,519 county votes, followed by Bradford County Commissioner Mark Smith with 1,124; Harrisburg City Councilman Brad Koplinski, 743; U.S. Rep. Brandon P. Neuman, 183; and former Congressman Mark Critz, 155.Corbett's running mate, Lt. Gov. Jim Cawley, was unopposed on the Republican ballot. He collected 1,790 votes, or 78.4 percent of the votes cast in that race.Senator is topsMeanwhile, state Sen. John Yudichak, a Democrat, was unopposed in the balloting yesterday for his party's nomination to retain his seat in the 14th Senatorial District. He topped the county Democratic ballot both in votes and percentages, collecting 3,788 of the 4,313 votes cast, or 87.7 percent of the Democrats' favor. There was no Republican candidate.The new 14th District will include all of Carbon County and parts of Luzerne County, including the cities of Hazleton, Nanticoke, Pittston and Wilkes-Barre, the townships of Bear Creek, Buck, Fairview, Foster, Hanover, Hazle, Jenkins, Newport, Plains, Plymouth and Wilkes-Barre and the boroughs of Ashley, Bear Creek Village, Edwardsville, Exeter, Freeland, Hughestown, Jeddo, Laflin, Larksville, Laurel Run, Luzerne, Plymouth, Sugar Notch, Swoyersville, Warrior Run, West Hazleton, West Pittston, West Wyoming, White Haven, Wyoming and Yatesville.State rep. raceon tap for generalLike Yudichak, incumbent State Rep. Doyle Heffley of Lower Towamensing Township, a Republican, was unopposed within his party. He received 1,996 of the 2,163 GOP votes cast for that 122nd Legislative District nomination, or 92.3 percent, the second-highest percentage of the Republican candidates.On the Democratic side, Patti Borger of Mahoning Township was unopposed in seeking the nomination opposite Heffley. She received 3,157 of the 3,874 votes cast in that race, or 81.5 percent of the complimentary votes.The district includes all of Carbon County except Summit Hill Borough, which has been redistricted to the 124th District.In that race, incumbent Jerry Knowles of Hometown, a Republican, ran unopposed yesterday. He received 98 complimentary votes from the 119 Summit Hill Republicans, a percentage of 82.4 There was no Democratic candidate on the ballot.In addition to Summit Hill, the 124th District includes the townships of East Brunswick, East Union, Kline, North Union, Rush, Schuylkill, Union, Walker, West Brunswick and West Penn and the boroughs of Coaldale, Deer Lake, McAdoo, New Ringgold, Orwigsburg, Port Clinton, Ringtown and Tamaqua in Schuylkill County; and the townships of Albany, Greenwich, Perry, Tilden and Windsor and the boroughs of Hamburg, Lenhartsville and Shoemakersville in Berks County.Like the 17th Congressional District, there will also be a contest in November for the 11th District, where Republican Lou Barletta of Hazleton is the incumbent. He will face Democrat Andy Ostrowski in the general election. Barletta received 592 of the 634 votes cast in that race yesterday, or 93.4 percent of the votes, which was the highest percentage of the GOP candidates. Ostrowski collected 708 complimentary votes of the 963 that were cast, a percentage of 73.5.The 11th District includes the townships of Banks, Kidder, Lausanne, Lehigh, Packer and Penn Forest and the boroughs of Beaver Meadows, East Side and Weatherly in Carbon County; all of Columbia, Wyoming and Northumberland counties; and parts of Cumberland, Dauphin, Luzerne, Montour and Perry counties.Both parties had candidates for positions on the state committees of their respective parties. Carol Walbert of Jim Thorpe, the incumbent state Democratic committeewoman, received 3,455 token votes, out of 4,313 cast (80.1 percent), while Gilbert J. Gerhard of Packer Township, the incumbent state Republican committeeman, totaled 1,882 token votes, out of the 2,282, (82.5 percent), from his party members.